Facebook Messenger's bots are mostly shit, but they'll get better

By Hadlee Simons on 4 July, 2016 HadleeSimons Share Bots are the new cloud, it has to be said. They’re the latest trendy thing in the world of tech, as the likes of Google and Microsoft get in on the action over the past few months. Another name to add to the list is Facebook, actually beating its rivals to the punch by launching an army of bots worldwide (for the most part). In fact, Facebook claims that there are 11 000 bots available for its Messenger platform at present. Unfortunately, its bot efforts, while still in the early stages, are rather poor right now. It’s like a robot phone call (and not in a good way) The biggest selling point of the new generation of bots is that they’re supposed to be smarter…